I haven’t even herd of a new version of SQL Server 2008, coming out, but according to this blog the new version has some very interesting and new data types that will come in useful for geography processing.
DATE - ANSI-compliant date data type
TIME - ANSI-compliant time data type with variable precision
DATETIMEOFFSET - timezone aware/preserved datetime
DATETIME2 - like DATETIME, but with variable precision and large date range
GEOMETRY - “flat earth” spatial data type
GEOGRAPHY - “round earth” spatial data type
HIERARCHYID - represents hierarchies using path enumeration model
The first four datatypes are regular SQL datatypes but the last three datatypes are exposed as .NET system UDTs.
.Net, .NET, Database, Microsoft, SQL Server
